Nothing complicated; nothing too exciting, but yes, I do knit while I read. As well as during many other domestic activities.

Saturday, March 11, 2006

Arrrrrrrrr. . .

. . . which is the punchline to my current favorite joke, or "What kind of movies do pirates like?"

Sewingsuzee asks where I've been, and no, I haven't been trying to protect my seedlings from frost (it was 41 degrees farenheit in the house last night -- woo hoo), but I have begun to protect them from birds, with the expensive netting I mentioned earlier. We actually saw the dastardly sparrows hopping around the ex-pea bed.

But the reason I haven't been posting is that I've been knitting frantically. And the good news is that I made this:

See the pretty eyelet leaf pattern? See the wavy side cables? Pretty yarn.

Here's the not-so-good news. Can you spot the reason I'm going to rip this cable down for the second freaking time? I can!It's supposed to reverse directions every 20 rows, not whenever I misread said directions. Hence the pirate noise. I cannot understand how I can repeatedly make this sort of mistake.

The really good news is that the front, as knitted, weighs 88 grams according to my scale, and the rest of the ball weighs 339 grams. Probably enough to make a real, long-sleeved sweater.

Assuming that I can figure out the cable patterns. I might be done by September.